Front matter
Reading edition
The tinder-brush has caught the spark, the temples of the night, Their purple columns towering high, glow in the amber light. (“By Scarlet Torch and Blade.”)
BY SCARLET TORCH AND BLADE
BY ANTHONY EUWER
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR
“A four-league stretch is burning now— The cavalcade of death Moves on with scarlet torch and blade And with a scarlet breath.”
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press
Copyright, 1923 by Anthony Euwer
Second printing, January, 1926
Made in the United States of America
To the Memory of MY SISTER MARIAN
WHOSE NEVER FAILING ENCOURAGEMENT WENT FAR TOWARD THE MAKING OF THIS BOOK.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
To all the joy that colors give beneath the sun and moon; to all pleasurable sounds and wholesome odors of the earth and air and sea; to the warmth and glow of genial firesides and to the bite of winter winds; to the rain upon the lichens; to the majesty of mountains and the awfulness of high places; to the darkness of caves and the friendliness of far-off trails; to every furry thing—the shy, the dumb, and whatsoever creature has found expression in his fancy; to both the nobler and the meaner natures of men; to life’s laughter and life’s tears and to all fruitful experience; to these sources, for whatsoever good may here be found, the author makes acknowledgment.
A number of the rhymes in the present volume have previously appeared in the Associated Press, Judge, Leslie’s, the Oregon Sunday Journal, and The Open Road. For permission to reprint the drawings the author is indebted to the publishers of Scribner’s Magazine.